Bakre was born in Baroda, and was one of the founders of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group,[1][2] the pioneers of modern art in India.

[3] In 1951, he went to Britain, where he soon gave up sculpture and concentrated on painting.

In his later years he became a recluse, but he received a lifetime achievement award from the Bombay Art Society in 2004.

[5] He died from a heart attack[1] in Murud-Harnai in the Ratnagiri district in 2007.

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